Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should anyone be moved to anger by the educational plans of a 19-year-old black kid from a small town on the sandy banks of the Pamlico River? Because North Carolina is basketball country, that's why. It is a state where few issues besides tobacco prices and Joe Califano's antismoking campaign can generate as much passionate controversy as basketball. To Tar Heels, especially those in obscure backwaters like Washington (pop. 9,000), young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang...
McNulta went upstate to Chicago in 1895, and died in 1900 at the age of 62. In 1858 he had started moving west from New York City, working as a horse dealer and "race rider." He sold tobacco in Bloomington, enlisted in the Army in 1861 and made brigadier general in four years. But in 1874 he was defeated for reelection to the U.S. Congress by Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Stevenson the first, people stress in McLean County, meaning the one who went on to become Vice President under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897). McNulta read...
David A. Piper, manager of Ehrlich's Tobacco Shop, said inflation and a recession may augment their sales, which are twice their normal level...
...businessmen, using effective Washington lobbying, began to complain loudly. President William LaMothe of the Kellogg cereal company accused the commission of exhibiting "absence of fundamental fairness." Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford said that the agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., in answer to a subpoena, spent three years and $800,000 to ship the FTC 14,000 pounds of documents. Chicago-area Businessman Joseph Sugarman, the owner of a mail-order firm selling home computers and burglar alarms, took out half-page ads this month in papers around...
...Shea, 35, recruited a five-man flight crew and this month took a four-engine cargo plane loaded with 26 tons of food and medical supplies worth $200,000 from Dublin to Bangkok, and then into Phnom-Penh. The Irish dairy and sugar industries, a supermarket chain and a tobacco company donated the supplies, and the Irish government provided $80,000 for flight costs. That mercy mission, as Philips told his brother-in-law, TIME Staff Writer David Aikman, afforded a rare glimpse of the grim reality inside Cambodia...